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Harvey Russell “Pure as the Flame”

March 13, 2024 FredArnold 0
Australian country roots artist shows progression on his sophomore album, all about life’s challenges. Harvey Russell hails from Sydney and ‘Pure as the Flame’ is his sophomore album, which suggests that he is a relative newcomer […]
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Harvey Russell “Liquid Damage” (Independent, 2019)

September 23, 2019 Alan Fitter 0
If you listen to Harvey Russell’s new album ‘Liquid Damage’ on SoundCloud, then there are three hashtags: #Americana (we’ll come back to that), #honkytonk (lots of that on the album) and #alt-country. Well this album shouldn’t really […]

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Honey and The Bear “A Wish & A Tide”

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Combining personal songs with others rooted in their home brings an engaging and entertaining album. Spread around the country, there are a surprising number of couples quietly working on music, playing gigs within easy reach of […]
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Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck “My Epitaph” – remember me this way

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The Fiddle And The Drum is the new collaborative album from Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck, and My Epitaph is the latest single from it. Originally written and recorded by Appalachian folk artist Ola Belle Reed, […]
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Video Premiere: Florence Dore “Twelve Great Minds (Department Meeting)”

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The new single from Florence Dore is a rocking, insistent anthem for a problem that many of us will associate with: meetings at work that manage to be both boring and pointless. With Will Rigby’s restless […]

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Video Interview: Jim Lauderdale on releasing two new albums and supporting Emmylou Harris

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Jim Lauderdale must be doing something right because he keeps doing it. He has recently released two albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and The Birds Know with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, which maintain his phenomenal […]
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Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

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David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]
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Interview: Charlie Musselwhite knows the highway and it knows him

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